Slice-turning toaster



Jam.r 3, 1928. 1,654,827

H. A. MULVANY SLIGE TURNING TOASTER Filed Nov. 15. 1926 VEQZO v n" mn" Patented Jan. 3, 1928.

` UNITED STATES PATENT oFricE.

HARRY A. MUIVANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO `IIYIAI'IEIS'JTIC ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., OF CALIFORNIA.

INC., OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION suon-fromme roAsrER.

Application led November 15, 1926. Serial No. 148,490.

This invention relates to bread toasters,` especially such as are heated electrically, and

the object of the invention is to provide 1m-l proved means for Vturning one side is done.

On the drawings hereto my improved construction is shown applied to an electrically heated toaster of substantially conventional design.

Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively side and end elevations of the complete toaster, Fig. 3 is a Vertical sectional view of the toaster as shown in Fig. 2 but with a slice of bread in toasting position on one reversing roller and lwith the roller on the opposite side of the toaster being turned to reverse the slice on the downwardly swung retaining leaf.

Fig. 4i is a detached view of the the toast when toastturning roller showing its spiral wire construction.

Briefly described, my improvement consists in providing a specially formed spiral wire roller for supporting the lower edge of the toast and which roller may be turned so as to cause the slice of toast to slide downwardly and outwardly upon one of the usual hinged retaining leaves of the toaster when the same is open so that when the leaf is swung upward or closed the slice will again rest upon the roller butwith itsropposite side exposed to the heating element.

In the drawings 1 represents the base of the toaster, 2 the end Aframe plates 3 the top plate, 4 the vertically arranged heating element wound around an insulating support 5 suitably held in place on the frame and guarded by an inverted V shaped wire grill 6 welded or otherwise connected to trans-` versely extending wires 7 anchored in the end plates 2.

Just below the lower ends of the wire grill are rollers 8 made of wire formed into a helix or open spirals and with the ends of the wire providing bearing portions or shafts 9 rotatably extending through the end plates 2 and provided at their extreme ends with knobs 10 by which the rollers may be turned, while positioned outside of the rollers are retaining leaves 11 pivoted at 12 to the end plates so as to swing from a substantially vertical position to a downwardly slice outwardly y to successive positions asy indicated at 14-14L and whereupon it will slide to position 14 and may then 4be swung upward on the leaf 11y to again fall into toasting position with its edge upon the roller 8 but with the. opposite side of the slice exposed to the heat.

The toast-turningroller 8 made of a helix or spiralled wire is much cheaper to make than a solid tubular roll as it dispenses with the requirement of securing together of roll, heads, and shafts, as all are formed from a illustration* that instead` of the spirally formed wire rolls, segments of rolls or their equivalent might also be employed, but with complete spiralled wire rolls as shown no reverse movement is required to bring the rolls into operative position.

I claim:

1. A bread toaster provided with means for supporting a bread slice in upright position adjacent a suitable source of heat for toast-y ing the same,a leaf at the outer side of the slice pivoted to the device to swing downwardly at a slant from below the lower endl of the'slice, and a rotatable support for the at i1' in Fig, 3, i

single wire. Besides this, the spaced spirals lower edge of the slice formed of open spirals of wire adapted upon rotation to carry the toast outwardly to the downwardly slanted leaf.

-5 2. In a toaster of the character described,

a horizontally arranged open spiral coil of wire re-volvably supported and adapted to HARRY A. MULVANY.

wire adapted for 

